Mckenna Grace
Birthdate: Jun 25, 2006
Birthplace: Grapevine, Texas, USA
Mckenna Grace is a veteran child actor who has developed into a talented and prolific teenage actor with over two dozen feature credits since her debut in director/producer/co-writer Denis Henry Hennelly’s apocalyptic drama, Goodbye World (2013), with Adrien Grenier and Gaby Hoffmann.
Grace was cast in a supporting role in writer-director Richard Bates Jr.’s horror comedy, Suburban Gothic (2014), starring Kat Dennings and Matthew Gray Gubler, followed by a supporting role in the Bruce Beresford-directed drama, Mr. Church (2016), with Eddie Murphy starring in his first feature role in four years.
Grace took on her first voice role in an animated feature with The Angry Birds Movie (2016), produced by Columbia Pictures and Rovio Animation. Grace continued to earn castings in major movies with a role in director/producer/writer Roland Emmerich’s $390-million-grossing sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), with Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman. Mckenna Grace had her first co-starring feature role in the Mark Webb-directed drama from Fox Searchlight, Gifted (2017), in which Grace played an intellectually gifted child with Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, grossing $43 million worldwide.
Grace’s busy 2017 continued with roles in the $63-million-grossing comedy, How to Be a Latin Lover (2017); in director-writer Franck Khalfoun’s horror sequel, Amityville: The Awakening (2017), with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bella Thorne; and in an attention-getting turn as the young Tonya Harding in the Craig Gillespie-directed biopic, I, Tonya (2017), starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, and Allison Janney, and grossing $54 million.
Mckenna Grace met Steven Spielberg for the first—and possibly, not last—time in a role in Spielberg’s sci-fi Ready Player One (2018), starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Mark Rylance, and Ben Mendelsohn, and earning a $592 million global gross. Grace again played the younger self of the main character (in this case, Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers/Capt. Marvel) in directors-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel (2019), with Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Annette Bening, and grossing $1.13 billion worldwide.
Grace’s second co-starring role was in the comedy-drama, Troop Zero (2019), with Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Epps, and Allison Janney, and directed by the British duo, Bert (Amber Templemore-Finlayson) and Bertie (Katie Ellwood). Mckenna Grace landed the starring role opposite Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in the hit horror sequel ($231 million gross), Annabelle Comes Home (2019), from producer James Wan and writer-director Gary Dauberman.
Starting with Scoob! (2020), Grace performed in more voice roles in animated features, including DreamWorks Animation’s disappointing Spirit Untamed (2021), and a co-starring role in director-writer Cal Brunker’s sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), with Marsai Martin, Kim Kardashian, and Taraji P. Henson and released by Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies.
Grace played support in another Wan-produced and directed horror movie, Malignant (2021), with Annabelle Wallis and Maddie Hasson. Grace was cast in another leading role in co-writer/director Jason Reitman’s hit sequel ($204 million global gross), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), with Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Ernie Hudson; Grace also co-starred in the untitled Ghostbuster sequel, released in 2024.
Mackenna Grace played support with leads Diane Lane and Kyle Chander, in Lionsgate’s speculative fiction thriller from director/co-writer Jan Komasa, Anniversary (date to be announced). Grace co-starred and executive produced the drama by writer-director Dan Kay, Spider & Jessie (date to be announced), with Jesse Williams.
One of Grace’s biggest roles to date is her starring spot opposite Thomasin McKenzie in director Olivia Wilde’s drama about Kerri Strug’s 1996 Olympics struggles, Perfect (2024). Mackenna Grace starred opposite musician-actor Kendrick Lamar in the Susan Johnson-directed adaptation of Annie Hartnett’s book, Rabbit Cake (2024), for Amazon Studios.
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Personal Details
Mckenna Grace was born and raised in the Dalles-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, by parents Ross Burge (orthopedic surgeon) and Crystal Grace (medical sales representative). Grace is an only child. While participating tap, ballet, gymnastics, beauty pageants, and cheerleading, Grace secured an agent as a child actor and landed her first TV commercial when she was five years old. Grace’s early success in being cast in series and features led to her family moving to the Los Angeles area in 2013. Mangold’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
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- 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpireasPhoebe Spengler
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
- 2023 | Crater
- 2023 | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups
- 2022 | A Friend of the Family: True Evil
- 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
- 2021 | Spirit Untamed
Spirit Untamed
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
- 2019 | Troop Zero
- 2019 | Annabelle Comes Home
Annabelle Comes Home
While babysitting the daughter of Ed and Lorraine Warren, a teenager and her friend unknowingly awaken an evil spirit trapped in a doll.
- 2018 |
- 2017 | Amityville: The Awakening
Amityville: The Awakening
A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real-life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son. Things go horribly wrong.
- 2017 | How to Be a Latin Lover
How to Be a Latin Lover
Finding himself dumped after twenty-five years of marriage, a man who made a career of seducing rich older women must move in with his estranged sister, where he begins to learn the value of family.
- 2017 |
- 2016 | Mr. Church
- 2015 | Frankenstein
- 2015 | Russell Madness
- 2013 | Goodbye World
Some Facts About Mckenna Grace
The Crown: Mckenna Grace was crowned “Tiny Miss Texas” in a statewide beauty pageant.
No Schoolrooms: Grace has never attended a brick-and-mortar school, since she has either been home-schooled or had tutors on the set.
Student-Actor: For a college-level course on media aesthetics, Mckenna Grace wrote papers about the streaming version of The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present) while studiously avoiding any mention of her performance or her role in the series.
Singer: Grace, along with an extremely busy acting career in films, streaming, and television, has maintained a steady singing career since 2021, when she had a released single and music video tie-in with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and released five music videos in 2022 and 2023, four non-album singles in 2022 and 2023, and the album titled Bittersweet 16, released by Photo Finish Records in 2023.
